A-Rod #1

My non-fiction read is essentially a biography on the famous baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez. But it is more of a critical biography in that the author emphasizes main points of the baseball players flaws and leads you up to his story of steroid use which was huge news in the sports world. The prologue of this novel gets the reader thinking in a critical direction towards Alex Rodriguez before dabbling into the many ins and outs of his life story.

I find the first few chapters are almost trying to explain an excuse for baseball star's flaws by telling of his childhood and how his father left him and his family and they grew up on the line of poverty and so on. But then it almost begins to contradict itself by explaining how Alex was always surrounded with many good friends and piers and how he always managed to get a good education at private schools. So really we are shown two sides of his life and how they might effect his future.

One of the main themes though does relate t the lack of a father figure in his life and the many ways that this would effect the many decisions he makes. I believe this will continue throughout the book while we continue to learn more about his life story and rise to fame.
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